Firestone Walker Parabola

Brewed by Firestone Walker Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial Stout
Paso Robles, California USA

Serve in Snifter

Bottle. Black body with a small brown head. Aroma is chocolate, roasted malt, tobacco notes, bourbon. Flavor is bourbon, roasted malt, coffee, chocolate.

Une vraie bombe que cette Parabola, rien de surprenant. Le nez est formidable, chocolat, bourbon, tabac, vanille dans un équilibre alléchant. En bouche c’est gracieux, riche, épais, collant et parfaitement effervescent. Le bourbon donne le chien nécessaire et prend la place qui lui revient, sans plus. Pas trop tiraillé entre les saveurs, balancé à la perfection.

Parabola 02. Awesome aroma with tons of coffee, vanilla, alcohol, and charred oak, also dark fruit and some smoke. flavor is fairly sweet with roasty/burnt bitterness. Pours opaque brown with no head. Super thick and creamy and almost flat.

Parabola pours pitch black. Like engine oil. Black as night. You get the point. Very small tan head is poured. Once the head disappears it leaves a nice little lacing around the glass. Thick. The smell on Parabola is world class. I could of just sat there all night long just smelling this beer. It’s a sweet molasses smell mixed in with charred wood. Espresso, vanilla, and chocolate round out the aroma. It’s a huge aroma. An aroma that you can smell as soon as you pop the cap. When it came to the taste I picked up a hops that I didn’t notice in the smell. But other than that the taste mirrors the smell a lot with some of the ingredients making more of an appearance. The chocolate and vanilla I mentioned come through more. Burnt espresso also highlights the taste. Rounded out with the lovely taste of bourbon, roasted malt, molasses, and caramel. Just ridiculous. For 13% the alcohol is hidden really well. Mouthfeel just adds to the greatness here. Full bodied and smooth.

Bottle thanks to dudeabide. Thanks Nate! Mahogany body with no head. Smells of sweet caramel. Little bourbon and caramel on the tounge and oh so smooth

Bottle@Home. Complex aroma of wood, bourbon and vanilla. Black, light brown head, good lace. Sweetish, light bitter, woody, hint of smoke, fruity. Full, light burn. Flavourful, powerful and balanced.

On draught at a beer dinner at Monk’s Kettle. This beer explodes in the aroma with everything but the kitchen sink - cocoa, espresso, coffee, leather...you name it! Taste holds up to the aroma with all of the same complex flavors. A joy to drink.

bottle @ "Fiona’s Tasting". Brown small head, almost black beer. And what an aroma !!! Lots of bourbon and vanilla, roasted malt, sweet coffee/mocca/choclate. Lovely. And it tastes even better: very smooth, well balanced, quite sweet with bourbon, burned malts, a hint of red fruit, vanilla and sweet alcohol. Loved it.